======================================================= Contact: Pierre duPont: Marketing Director Division Limited, +44 454 615554 Kelly Stremel: Franson, Hagerty & Associates, +1 415 462-1605 Division, Matsushita and Silicon Graphics Demonstrate Advanced Interactive VR Experience at UNIFORUM'94 VR System Simulates Advanced Living Environment Utilizing Silicon Graphics Supercomputer 23 March 1994 - Division, the provider of professional virtual reality systems, and Japan's Matsushita Electric Works (MEW), the world leader in building construction, will demonstrate an advanced interactive design experience with a virtual reality architectural walk-through in a Japanese house. Users can experience this demo at UNIFORUM'94 in the World of the Future Pavilion, at the Moscone Center, San Francisco, March 23-25. MEW now uses virtual reality to simulate an advanced living environment, simulating all features of the home including lighting, heating and acoustics, saving immense design costs and time. The demonstration, configured as a complete two-story Japanese house, includes fully textured, detailed bedrooms, kitchen, bathrooms and interconnecting stairs. With a head-mounted display and a 3D mouse, users will be able to walk around the rooms and up the stairs to different stories of the house. This complexity, detail and quality of virtual reality has not yet been experienced in public. The system being demonstrated uses a Silicon Graphics OnyxOE RealityEngine2OE graphics supercomputer, which delivers the world's fastest compute and graphics performance. In addition to this particular application, Onyx systems are utilized in a wide variety of applications ranging from flight simulation and automotive styling to digital film production and interactive entertainment. At the core of Matsushita's simulated environment is Division's distributed virtual reality software, dVSOE, which provides a very advanced software environment enabling work-group VR applications. With this configuration, Matsushita is able to provide the highest performance virtual reality experience for several people simultaneously sharing and interacting within the same world. Dr. Nomura, head of VR research at Matsushita, said, "With this successful installation, Division has proven that it has the most advanced VR systems in the world." Charles Grimsdale, Division's MD added, "This demonstrates the rapidly growing power of VR technology as a problem-solving tool in one of many demanding applications. We've been able to use Division's open, standards-based software architecture to rapidly develop this demonstration." "Matsushita has developed one of the most advanced software and hardware environments to enable a new level of realism and interactivity in a virtual world," said Josh Larson-Mogal, Silicon Graphics' manager of virtual reality/simulation products and markets. "Virtual reality continues to move into mainstream visualization and design applications, such as this `simulated environment,' intensifying the demand for high-performance computational and graphics computer systems." Division is a member of the Division Group of companies, specializing in providing virtual reality technology, products and services for professional virtual reality applications. Headquartered in Bristol, England, with offices in Chapel Hill, N.C., and Redwood City, California, Division services a world-wide installed base of its integrated VR systems. Based in Tokyo, Japan, Matsushita Electric Works is a major supplier of building materials and home furnishings including kitchens, bathrooms, etc. This virtual reality development is being undertaken by the A&I laboratory in Osaka, Japan, one of Japan's leading centers of VR research. Division is located at 19 Apex Court, Woodlands, Almondsbury, Bristol, BS12 4JT, England, Tel: +44 454 615554. Its shares are traded on the London Stock Exchange. dVS is a tradmark of Division. Silicon Graphics is a registered trademark, and Onyx and RealityEngine are trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc. Note: Photographs are available. Contact Pierre duPont at +44 454 615554.